Improvement in shoemakers  shoulder-tools



w..L. PETERS.

` Shne'makelfs" Shoulder-Tools.

N0.l48,750, Y Patented March17,874,

Witnesses: Inventor:

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\VILLIAM L. PETERS, OF OXFORD, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO CHARLES I. RAVSON, OF SAME PLAGE.

IMPROVEMENT IN SHOEMAKERS SHOULDERfTOOLS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 148,750, dated March 17, 1374; application tiled August 23, 1873.

To all ywhom 'it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLLAM L. PETERS, of Oxford, in the county of I'Vorcester and State ot' Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Shoemakers7 Shoulder- Tools, ot' which the following is a specification:

My invention consists of a shoulder-tool for smoothing and nishing the edges of the sole and the ball edges of the heel, in which tilecut--faced disks of hardened steel are combined with the rubbin g-blade, so as to scrape, smooth, and nish the edges at the sa-me time the rubber is used, the said disks being adjustably attached to be shifted around as they Wear dull, and several disks of different thickness constructed alike, so as to be interchangeable for soles differing in thickness.

The drawing represents my improved shouldertool in the diierent side elevations.

A represents the shoulder-stick, which may be of iron or any other approved material, and in any form preferred. Besides the rubbing ordinary blade a, I propose to have disk, or approximately disk, shaped edge-dressing tools H, With le-cut faces, lwhich said disks I propose to clamp onto the shank of tool a by a screw, F, so that they can be turned from time to time, when the screw which holds them against turning is unscrewed.

The disks can be adjusted to diffe-rent positions as the file-surfaces Wear, so as to last a great While. One of the disks may be thicker than the other for thicker soles. I will, however, have any number of these disks for different soles. These disks will be used in one position until the file-surface is Worn o", and then shifted around to another, and so on, thus affording tools that Will last a long time, particularly if there be a considerable number of interchangeable disks.

The file-surfaces are much better for nishing the edges of the soles than the stones commonly used, because they cut and break the ber better.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isv A shouldertool having adjustable and interchangeable disks with rile-cut faces combined with the rubbing-blade, substantially as specified.

WILLIAM L. PETERS.

Witnesses:

A. L. JosLiN, ALFRED W. LONG. 

